Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	16th century – 17th century – 18th century
Decades:	1630s  1640s  1650s  – 1660s –  1670s  1680s  1690s
Years:	1658 1659 1660 – 1661 – 1662 1663 1664

1661 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1661 (MDCLXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1661 1.1 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1661

• January 6 – The Fifth Monarchists unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. George Monck's regiment defeats them.
• January 30 – The body of Oliver Cromwell is exhumed and subjected to a posthumous execution, along with those of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton.
• February 5 – The Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China dies and is succeeded by his son the Kangxi Emperor.
• February 14 – George Monck’s regiment becomes The Lord General's Regiment of Foot Guards (which later becomes Coldstream Guards)
• March – Following the death of his mentor, Cardinal Mazarin, King Louis XIV of France starts to rule independently.
• April 23 – King Charles II of England, Scotland, Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey, for the second time.
• July 1 – Russo-Swedish War (1656–1658) – Treaty of Cardis: Russia surrenders to Sweden all captured territories.

• August 6 – Portugal and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of The Hague, whereby New Holland is formally ceded to Portugal by the Dutch Republic.

[edit] Undated

• The first modern bank notes are issued in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Köprülü Mehmed Pasha ends his rule as vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

[edit] Births

1661 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1661 MDCLXI
Ab urbe condita	2414
Armenian calendar	1110 ԹՎ ՌՃԺ
Bahá'í calendar	-183 – -182
Berber calendar	2611
Buddhist calendar	2205
Burmese calendar	1023
Byzantine calendar	7169 – 7170
Chinese calendar	庚子年十二月初一日 (4297/4357-12-1) — to — 辛丑年十一月十一日 (4298/4358-11-11)
Coptic calendar	1377 – 1378
Ethiopian calendar	1653 – 1654
Hebrew calendar	5421 – 5422
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1716 – 1717
- Shaka Samvat	1583 – 1584
- Kali Yuga	4762 – 4763
Holocene calendar	11661
Iranian calendar	1039 – 1040
Islamic calendar	1071 – 1072
Japanese calendar	Manji 4 (万治4年)
Korean calendar	3994
Thai solar calendar	2204
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• January 30 – Charles Rollin, French historian (d. 1741)
• March 25 – Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
• April 16 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman (d. 1715)
• May 25 – Claude Buffier, French philosopher and historian (d. 1737)
• June 9 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
• July 20 – Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d. 1706)
• September 2 – Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
• October 11 – Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (d. 1742)
• November 1 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
• November 4 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
• November 6 – King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
• November 15 – Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss settler in America (d. 1743)
• November 28 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)
• December 5 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
• December 18 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (d. 1751)

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 – Thomas Venner, Fifth Monarchist (executed)
• February 2 – Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
• February 5 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1638)
• March 1 – Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
• March 9 – Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
• April 4 – Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier(b. c. 1580)
• April 7 – William Brereton, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
• May 27 – Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish dissenter (beheaded) (b. 1607)
• August 7 – Jin Shengtan, Chinese editor, writer and critic (b. 1608)
• August 16 – Thomas Fuller, English churchman and historian (b. 1608)
• October 4 – Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and sister of Blaise Pascal (b. 1625)
• October 28 – Agustín Moreto y Cavana, Spanish playwright (b. 1618)
• November 19 – Brian Walton, English clergyman and scholar (b. 1600)
• December 29 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594)